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PROCEEDINGS 



OF TUB 



GENERAL MEETINGS FOR SCIENTIFIC BUSINESS 



OF TUB 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



PAPERS. 



1. On the Pectoral and Pelvic Arches of! the British 

 Museum Specimen of Archceopteryx. By Branislav 

 Petronievics, Ph.D., and Arthur Smith Woodward, 

 LL.D., F.K.8., V.P.Z.S. 



[Received and Road November 21, 1916.] 

 (Plate I.*) 



Index. 



Pectoral Arch 



Pelvic Arch 



Bibliography 



Introductory. 



Some further preparation of the British Museum specimen of 

 ArchcBopteryx recently done by Mr. F. 0. Barlow, under the 

 direction of myself and Dr. Woodward, has resulted in the com- 

 plete uncovering of the right coracoid bone and the discovery of 

 the pubes. The work was undertaken at my request after I 

 had convinced myself, by a prolonged study of this specimen in 

 connection with Dames' two memoirs on the Berlin Archceopteryx, 

 that the bones in question must exist buried in the limestone 

 matrix. On the results I have prepared an exhaustive paper, 

 which I hope to publish later ; but the following preliminary 



* For explanation of the Plate see p. 6. 



Proc. Zool. Soc— 1917, No. I. 1 



